Phi Gamma Delta House, aka Janney Building and Barbara Blount Hall

The Janney Building was used as a dayroom and lounge for women students until 1898, when the top two floors of the Mess Hall were converted into dormitory rooms for women and renamed Barbara Blount Hall. When the women ceased to use the Janney Building, the trustees authorized it to be rented to any campus group desiring it. President Dabney urged his fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, to rent the structure. They did so, and the building became known as the Phi Gamma Delta House. The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity was the first fraternity chapter on campus to possess an entire house. The structure was razed in 1908 to make room for University Field, later renamed Wait Field. The Phi Gamma Delta Chapter moved from their house on Main Street into Turner House on the university campus in December 1917, becoming again the first fraternity to have a house on campus.